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Oswiecim Slideshow
Oswiecim
Travel Blogs from Oswiecim, Poland
Auschwitz.- Birkenau
Many times during my life, I have traveled someplace that I just had to see, only to be adisappointed. Auschwitz, was not one of them. But, for now I will leave you with this website, www.auschwitz.org.pl when you get to home ...
Always Remember...
... in real life is really eery. They also had a building in memory of each nationality. Since Karolina is Polish she wanted to go into the Poland museum so we stayed in there for a while. They had a lot of pictures and information to read on the walls of the ...
POLAND 4th part-Auschwitz and Wieliczka
Two excursions not far from Krakow. WIELICZKA is just of the city, reachable by local bus in 20 minutes. It is the maybe oldest mine in the world and produced millions of tons of salt along its history. Now is primarily a tourist site as about one ...
Auschwitz - The center of tragedy
... then there were things that really got me reflecting, so here goes. Auschwitz is an hour and a half drive away from Krakow in Poland. When most people think of it, The Holocaust, Nazi, and death all come to mind. This was exactly what the Nazi's wanted ...
Auschwitz and travelling south
... name - Auschwitz) was actually a small farming village in the middle of nowhere. Fortunately we could follow some signs. Oswiecim is actually a rather large town of about 40000 some 5 km from Helga’s original ‘guestimation’. Anyway, ...
Auschwitz
After returning from Kutna Hora I headed off to the train station to catch my overnight train to Poland. I was pretty nervous at this point and contemplating not going, but I knew that if I did not go I would regret it. Once I found my ...
Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration & Death Camps
I was going to include this with my blog on Krakow, but thought better of it, because it deserves its own blog. Nov 5: Today was our day to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest concentration camp in Europe. I skipped this tour 17-years ago, ...
Day 104 : Auschwitz
A tough one to explain, other than you have to visit this place to believe it - and everyone should visit this place at some stage. No movie, book, story or anything else you see, hear or read will prepare you for the sheer magnitude of what happened ...
Auschwitz.... The Holocaust
A sombre start to the day with a visit to Auschwitz in the pouring rain. We took a guided tour through the camp and learnt about the horrible history of the place. So hard to believe it only happened some 60 years ago! Saw the conditions in ...
Auschwitz and Prague
... we headed towards Prague, but left very early in the morning to have a guided tour of Auschwitz, the German concentration camp in Poland. The mood on the tour was very sombre, but was a very worthwhile experience. The things that happened at this place ...
Auschwitz / Brkenau
This was a really important part of the trip but it's not for everyone. We could both talk to you for hours about it BUT I'll leave it to you, to ask us about it. These words can only start to sum up how we felt compelling, ...
Second day in Krakow
Today, it began rainy and wet! I was glad in one way but I was really glad I had brought the rain breaker with me. I left the hostel with Mark and Suzanne but unfortunately I lost them. I took a stroll through the main square and visited the Dominican ...
A place of death
I'm glad I didn't try and do the Auschwitz (Oswiecim) concentration camps in an afternoon like I thought I would. I arrived at 10:30 and didn't leave until 5pm. The camp is free to enter, but if you arrive, between 9 and 3 you need to pay for a guided ...
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Yesterday we went to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. A very surreal experience. Arbeit Macht Frei...that is the entrance to Auschwitz, filled with empty promises and representing so many people lost. Auschwitz was filled with buildings holding ...
Krakow and the Holocaust
... comparable to my memory was the moment I first saw the Taj Mahal, probably because this unremarkable patch of grass in southern Poland and that very remarkable structure in northern India are two of the most iconic sites I've ever seen. Going beyond ...
Auscwitz
Auschwitz 1 and Auschwitz 11 Birkenau (apologies for the emotive writing in advance). We were picked up in a private van I had arranged with the hotel. Pick up was 9AM and we got back just on 4PM. What we saw in between was downright mind boggling. To ...
Humbling Experience
... . Firstly I did not realise there were two camps, Auschwitz 1 which was originally and still is today the town of Oswiecim, invaded, renamed and people displaced from their land at German occupation. This camp is mainly brick buildings, comprising of the ...
Auschwitz
I will be processing this day for quite some time. Between 1 and 1.5 million Jews were murdered between the Auschwitz and Birkenow camps (as well as Polish dissidents, intellectuals, Gypsies, and Soviets). Everything about the place is beyond belief, ...
Auschwitz, occhi lustri e pelle d'oca
... e propria, meravigliosa, cattedrale sotterranea, dove si celebrano messe e matrimoni. Dopo la visita alla miniera ho raggiunto Auschwitz, Oswiecim in polacco, di nuovo in treno. Appena arrivati ci hanno fatto vedere il breve filmato girato dai militari ...
Oswiecim...
...or as the rest of the world knows it - Auschwitz. I guess my visit to Auschwitz today was as expected. It was just the little things that got to me the most, like the piles of personal belongings like shoes and glasses, some of them belonging to ...
After saying good-bye to all our friends ...
After saying good-bye to all our friends and family in Krotoszyn, the group headed southeast to Oswiecim, the location of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex. Given its history and all the emotions already stirring around inside us from the ...
Sep 24, 2011
Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau
On Friday, April 17, my history class visited the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau sites just outside of Krakow. Our day started very early. We left the hotel at around 7:30 am and took the approximately 1 hour bus ride to the first ...
